EMILIA-AMALIA AT MERCER UNION
SESSION: SAMARA LIVINGCHIMES
Sunday, 28 April 2019, 12–3 PM
Mercer Union 1286 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON  M6H 1N9

Therapeutic Sound Practitioner Samara Livingchimes will lead a meditative sound bath for a small group of participants in the spirit of Pauline Oliveros’s principle of deep listening. This event is part of EMILIA-AMALIA’s partnership with Mercer Union in response to the exhibition, Beatrice Gibson: Plural Dreams of Social Life. Through four public programs in the ongoing series SESSION, E-A invites artists and practitioners to consider Gibson’s propositions for collective authorship, feminist histories, and the maternal as an essential point of collision between the self and the external world.

Registration for the event opens 16 April, and is limited to 15 persons. This event is free and open to the public, but requires pre-registration through Mercer Union. Please RSVP to office@mercerunion.org or 416.536.1519

Samara Livingchimes is a Registered Massage Therapist, Therapeutic Sound Practitioner, and Gestalt Therapist-in-Training. Her bodywork sessions utilize sound interaction and gentle hands-on techniques to promote deep relaxation responses, heighten somatic awareness, and help modulate pain related to stress, anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. She has obtained certification as a HealthRhythms® Group Empowerment Drumming Facilitator at the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in New York City and has additional training as a Sound Meditation Facilitator.